I promise you, relationship anarchy is a good thing. Tell your friends you love them. Go on dates. Domme them. Take them to weddings. Have a relationship with the sub from the dungeon where she does your taxes or you mow his lawn. Help your neighbor plant begonias and become their honorary granddaughter. Become friends with your partner’s partners. Cuddle with your book club and talk about Polysecure or something, idk.
I don’t care. Just stop expecting every relationship to follow a specific pattern and instead find the beauty you both want in your specific relationship with that other person.
Life is more than the nuclear family and strict pseudo-Christian mythological ideals.
AAAH! I can finally show my piece for @calendar-krewe 2024!
(my month is April. Also you can download it for free!)
My dear Commander Zenith and their loyal Marshmallow. It has been a delight working on this!
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Musing on Riag and Hearne. It was not love at first, second, or even fifth sight. It was love, not peacefully unfurling like a rose in spring. Not alighting like a petal on the skin. Or like the warm glow of whisky.
It was love red fanged and wild eyed, gnashing through the bars of its prison. Clawing itself out, until it's nails crack to the quick and there's more blood than paint on the door.
I sometimes forget, this man can do nothing in half measures. Ofc he wouldn't be able to fall in love normally. He reflects on it fondly but it was far from kind to him. It was love, and he loves, and he would do it forever. And it was kind eventually, but not at the start, especially since he was new to the whole emotion of it.
But sometimes I forget. I can't just lala love UWU like other characters - it's Riag and he's nothing but an intense mfer.